Axis of Empire w/ Dr. Afshin Matin-Asgari
Gregk speaks to the author of a new book on US-Iran relations to place the two countries’ braided history in its proper context and make sense of… how we got here.
Axis of Empire: A History of Iran-US Relations is out now, available from Verso
Image: A photograph of a large anti-USA mural painted on the side of a residential apartment block in downtown Tehran
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Comments (4)
Brilliant interview Gregk - I picked up Dr Matin-Asgari's book as a result. Blood Work continues to be the best show around. Are there any plans for merch in the pipeline? Keen to convert the masses 🔫🔫🔫
Glad you enjoyed! We both felt guilty at the end for running out of time, but it's in the nature of the subject matter. It also worked out in the sense that I'm sure most people have some level of familiarity with the post-revolutionary dynamic; our interview hopefully helps to explain, in part, how that dynamic was decades in the making. G
What an awesome (and I say this with the word’s true intent) interview with Dr Matin-Asgari. He really took what could have been quite a dry topic and with sheer intellectual muscle, gave a fantastic insight.
What a great interview, thanks! Everyone keeps saying the IRGC is increasingly run by hardliners, but the thing is, America keeps proving the IRGC hardliners to be correct. America is just never going to stop fucking with Iran so they really should stay prepared to repel invaders. And as I look around the crumbling ruins of the empire of capitalism, I can’t help but think they were right to reject it and all its temptations.